Plate-lifter.



I. B. SPRY.

PLATE LIFTER. APPLIOATI'ON FILED APR. 2,1909

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IDA E. SPRY, OF AVILLA, MISSOURI.

PLATE-LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 2, 1909.

Serial No. 487,417.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IDA E. SPRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Avilla, in the county of Jasper, State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Plate-Lifters; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a plate lifter and more particularly to theclass of lifter devices for introducing and removing pie plates fromstove ovens.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a plate lifterwhich is formed from a single strand of wire bent to provide a supportfor a plate, a handle portion and jaws for retaining the plate orholding the same upon the plate support so that the said plate can bereadily and easily handled when hot to remove the same from the oven ofa stove or other heating device.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a plate lifter whichis adapted to receive and support a pie or other plate so that the samecan be transported from one locality to another, and means for grippingthe said plate to prevent the accidental displacement or droppingthereof from the lifter, and furthermore to enable a person to carry theplate with ease and without possibility of being burned by the directhandling thereof.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a plate lifter whichis simple in construction, thoroughly reliable in operation, andeconomical and inexpensive in the manufacture.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts as will behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings which disclose the preferred form of embodiment of theinvention and as brought out in the claim hereunto appended.

It is to be understood that slight changes,

variations and modifications may be made such as come properly withinthe scope of.

the appended claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings z-Figure 1 is a top plan view of the invention with apie plate supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view.,' Fig. 3 is aside elevation with the pie plate shown in section.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views in the drawings.

In the drawings there is shown a plate lifter comprising a single strandof relatively stiif wire, the same being bent intermediate its ends toform a substantially circular-shaped plate supporting portion 5, withadjacent upwardly inclined portions 6, terminating in a handle 7, thelatter formed of spaced parallel portions twisted together as at 8 tostrengthen the said handle. The handle 7 has its portions forming thesame bent to provide double coils or convoluted portions 9, which latterserve to tension spaced parallel fingers or straight jaw portions 10,the latter terminating in hook extremities 11, to engage the channel orgroove in an annular flange 12, of a pipe plate 13 which latter is ofthe ordinary or usual construction.

In the parallel portions of the handle 7, adjacent the inclined portion6, are alining offsets 14, so as to accommodate the rib 15, formed bythe channel or groove in the flange 12, of the pie plate and to enablethe finger portions 10 of the lifter to securely grip the pie plate whenresting upon the circular supporting portion 5, of the said lifter.

When it is desired to lift a pie plate or the like the said plate 13, isbrought in a po sition upon the circular portion 5, and an operatorgrips the handle 7, and depresses the finger or jaw portions 10, so asto have their hook extremities 11, in the annular flange 12, of theplate 13, so that the latter will be firmly held in the lifter to enablethe pie plate to be lifted and transported from Patented June 8, 1909. v

one locality to another while in a heated clined ends, and yieldablegripping fingers 10 state. 011 said handle to engage the plate.

What is claimed is In testimony whereof, I {LffiX my signature, fA plagelifter comprising a singha strand in presence of two Witnesses. 0 Wireent to provi e a substantia y circu- 1 T lar portion forming a platesupport, the IDA SPRL ends of said circular portion being upwardly\Vitnesses: inclined in parallel relation to each other, 1 JOHN W.POWELL, a handle integral with said upwardly in- LEWIS E. SPnY.

